| Researcher(s) |
Geoff Moore (Department of Agriculture) Brianna Peake (Liebe Group) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2004 |
| Contributor | Liebe Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Pithara, WA
|
To determine the suitability of a range of sub-tropical perennial grasses to the medium rainfall zone of the NAR.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
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| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Other crop: Grasses |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
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| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow date | 25 August 2004 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | 7m x 3.6m |
| Plot replication | 3 |
| Fertiliser |
super:potash 3:1 @ 200 kg/ha at sowing |
| Herbicide |
Knockdown – Roundup @ 2 L/ha |
| # | Variety |
Establishment plants (plants/m2) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Bambatsi | 8.1 |
| 2 | █ Callide | 39.3 |
| 3 | █ Green Panic | 51.1 |
| 4 | █ Katambora | 45.9 |
| 5 | █ Lucerne Spring | 42.2 |
| 6 | █ Premier Digit | 12.6 |
| 7 | █ Signal grass | 47.4 |
| 8 | █ Siratro | 3 |
| 9 | █ Splenda setaria | 5.2 |
| 10 | █ Strickland finger | 10.4 |
| 11 | █ TWG Autumn | 38.5 |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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